So, HMV is going down the pan.
I have many happy memories of buying records and tapes in the big HMV in Oxford St. Then dropping down in to Soho to buy some grumble mags. A couple of hours in Foyles in the military section. Ah! shopping ain't what it used to be.

Tell us what was better back in the old days.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 7:56, 88 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

FFS. Mentioning HMV is going to start Al off about downloading again.
Fruit & vegetables used to have more flavour.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:02, Reply)

He won't be around yet,
He'll be stuck in traffic on the non-existent black ice.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:09, Reply)

And dog shit came in a variety of colours.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:16, Reply)

GARLIC BREAD?!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:17, Reply)

Spangles.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:17, Reply)

Your mum.
I remember when it was still a challenge trying to get both fists in.

/old
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:16, Reply)

What's the difference between Bartleby's mum and a Kit Kat?
You can only get 4 fingers in a Kit Kat.

/even older.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:18, Reply)

After six kids, I'd imagine you could park a transit in there.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:19, Reply)

I can assure you that this is correct.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:25, Reply)

She speaks highly of you too.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:27, Reply)

+ camp

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Teenage girls were better when I was a teenage boy.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:21, Reply)

Nothing creepy about this post.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:25, Reply)

More accessable?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:26, Reply)

Less likely to result in a lengthy prison term.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:28, Reply)

16 and up is legal
Though morally dodgy.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:29, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1830436
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:33, Reply)

The FreeFair defence.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:41, Reply)

you mean LEGALLY WATERTIGHT?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:43, Reply)

I mean 'creepy and noncey' actually.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:46, Reply)

that's fair enough.
The law is indeed creepy and noncey with its 'age of legal consent' shit.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:51, Reply)

I think assessing teenage girls on the basis of whether you can legally have sex with them is indeed creepy.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:01, Reply)

We should start a petition to make the 'half your age +7 year rule' into a law
Edit: although B3th may not be too impressed
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:02, Reply)

I'm just messing with you.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:03, Reply)

Is this a variation of the Legless defence?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:04, Reply)

There was some speculation on the radio just now that the music and film industry are likely to try to support HMV in some way.
As they would like there to be at least one chain selling their goods on the high st.
But it was also mentioned that in order for economic recovery to take place, there needs to be a clearing out of the dead wood.
Sad times.
I bought my first album from HMV - The Beatles For Sale, on cassette.
'Member cassettes?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:23, Reply)

I totally agree with the dead wood comments, that is how capitalism works
Sad for the workers better for the rest of us
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:25, Reply)

Well ultimately it should be better for the workers too.
These are generally people whose jobs will be going sooner or later.
Might as well make it sooner and get on with things.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:26, Reply)

HMV has been circling the drain for years

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:27, Reply)

I believe in the city they referred to it as a "Monty"

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:35, Reply)

Oh you believe that do you?
Is that what you believe? Is it really?

You believe that?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:47, Reply)

no, sorry
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:58, Reply)

"I've completely Monty'd up my life"
"I mean it, its gone the full Boyce."
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 10:15, Reply)

Oh and to answer the question.
Not a lot - the old days were a bit shit.
We've got loads of better stuff now.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:25, Reply)

I still have a "tape deck"
does anyone else say "I'll tape that" even though actually using sky plus?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:28, Reply)

yeah, I think so.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:30, Reply)

yes

(apart from the Sky plus bit)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:46, Reply)

Muffs were better
Or at least bigger
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:26, Reply)

'member Bejams?
'member Rumbelows?
'member Bollom Clean?
'member? 'member casual racism and sexism? 'member paedophilia?

'MEMBER IT?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:27, Reply)

'member movember?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:29, Reply)

I prefer Fanuary

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:31, Reply)

yeah, my team raised £3,500
But I don't like talking about my charity work.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:31, Reply)

I remember renting my first VHS recorder from Rumbelows
to buy it would have been thick end of £600 iirc
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:32, Reply)

I remember when I went to the library to borrow the stereophonics first album
Man, I played that radio friendly welsh rock over and over!!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:34, Reply)

oh man, clickage

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:35, Reply)

A bit lower

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:37, Reply)

Wow, how old are you?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:34, Reply)

I'm surprised you were able to work the thing
with your giant ham-hands.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:35, Reply)

he used a narrow dibbing stick

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:51, Reply)

Ah.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:00, Reply)

Stop ripping off my act. It's copywrited.

(Legless is a prick., Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:35, Reply)

Hi battered

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:36, Reply)

Good morning.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:37, Reply)

MODS!!!
Step this repeat offender immediately!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:36, Reply)

Nice work 'Peter' sorry I mean 'shed' sorry I mean 'mod' sorry I mean 'Paul Ross' sorry I mean stop it Battered.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:36, Reply)

Hi!

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:37, Reply)

I think you mean copyrighted.
You blundering ignoramus.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:36, Reply)

I bought a record off HMV last year.
I think it was the only purchase I ever made with them. It was Steve Hillage Live at Deeply Vale Festival, it took them about 9 weeks to deliver it despite being listed as 'in stock'.

Way to go in the 'digital age' you backward, overpriced spastics.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:44, Reply)

How have you managed to avoid HMV all these years?
It is your personal fault they are dying.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:50, Reply)

When I was buying a lot of records, they only had shit ones, and charged the earth for them.
Soz HMV, you were shit cf Virgin Megastore, etc etc.

Winchester had excellent record shops inc a superb 2nd hand one. No need to head to Southampton for the corporate bollocks experience.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:53, Reply)

it's my fault.
I torrented the entire back catalogues of PiL, Leonard Cohen, House of Pain, Bark Psychosis, Burial and John Coltrane.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:54, Reply)

Jesus wept why on earth would you want House of Pain's back catalogue?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:00, Reply)

Purely for Jump Around.
Everything else they did was shit apart from that track they did with Helmet.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:02, Reply)

so why download the entire back catalogue?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:04, Reply)

That's how he found out how shit they were.
Actually 'On Point' is a decent record apart from the vocals.

Long before House of Pain, Everlast did a tune which appears on the Rhyme Syndicate LP alongside Hijack. That was not much cop either.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:06, Reply)

So he knows what to do
when reaching for items on the top shelf
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:03, Reply)

Hahah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:06, Reply)

I've bought loads of very reasonably priced stuff from them.
There has often been a bit of a wait, but they have never been unable to fulfil an order, even for pretty obscure stuff.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:52, Reply)

Yeah?
Would maybe you'd like to fulfil my order of FUCKING OFF AND DELETING YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT YOU CUNT? By the way if possible I'd like to avoid 'a bit of a wait'. Thanks x
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:58, Reply)

There is an estimated* six to nine week delivery time for that, I'm afraid.


*I mean this figure has been plucked out of thin air and you could be waiting for the rest of your life.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:59, Reply)

well hurry up, he ent got long left

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:01, Reply)

Off topic was better in the old days, remember?
When there were more fluffy people?
Before all the nasty /talk2.0 people ruined the internet forever?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:01, Reply)

*QI alarm*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:01, Reply)

Hahaha I like this idea A LOT.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:04, Reply)

No

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:04, Reply)

Please would someone:
Encourage a load of new people to start posting. This place is fucking boring.

Start a new thread. I hate this one.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:08, Reply)

Every thread I start is shit.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:10, Reply)

YES.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:11, Reply)